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How were they not trying new things? The spherical worlds were new stuff (well, there were spherical worlds in Ratchet & Clank but those were different).
Also Metroid Prime was a FPS and it was awesome even though it's from 2002. The latest Metroid was very bad ;_;
If you were not playing Mario in Super Mario Galaxy and were playing as someone else like Sonic would that have made the game better?